TY - BOOK AU - Morrison,Arthur TI - A Child of the Jago AV - PR PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - London (England) -- Fiction KW - Boys -- Fiction KW - Slums -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child_of_the_Jago; Release date is 2011-08-03; Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Child of the Jago" by Arthur Morrison is a novel published in 1896. It follows young Dicky Perrott growing up in the Old Jago, a fictional slum in London's East End. Surrounded by poverty, violence, and crime, Dicky navigates a brutal world where survival means theft and betrayal. When a clergyman offers him a chance at honest work, hope flickers briefly—but the slum's grip proves difficult to escape in this stark portrait of Victorian London's underclass. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36958 ER -